"Zapruder film" of the Trump shooting posted

My analysis of "window 3"

A very important video of the Trump shooting was released yesterday. It was shot from just south of building 6, and is 9 1/2 long, with the shots fired almost exactly in the middle. The shots start at the 4 minute 55 second mark.

https://x.com/realDJStew724/status/1817781521190662306

The person who shot it said that the local police confiscated his phone and arrested him. The phone was only recently returned. I am intrigued by the center window of “building 6”, the building Crooks was on top of. It’s the one just to the right of the four big vents that stick out of the side of the building and go above the roof.

Here’s what the window looked like a fair amount of time before the shooting. This is the “normal” look. The "5:02” timestamp should probably be considered approximate, as Mr. Stewart added that in as a caption. Most of the 9 1/2 minute video shows “6:10” as the time, so that’s obviously not being updated to match the time exactly.

Mr. Stewart has a little over an hour of time that is not shown in this video. One it starts up again, it runs continuously.

This shot is taken 1 1/2 minutes before shots start being fired. Notice a little bit of red cloth at the top of the window?

One minute before shots. Now the red cloth covers almost all of the window, and it looks like a lot of the weather-stripping on the top of the window has sagged down:

Seven seconds before shots start: The window looks BROKEN. The fallen weather-stripping seems to have disappeared. There’s an almost horizontal white line running across the middle of the window, as well as a diagonal and vertical line we don’t see elsewhere. The red cloth seems to start a little below the top of the window now, but it goes all the way to the bottom.

Six seconds before shots: Instead of the white lines forming horizontal, diagonal and vertical lines, they now make two curves. The “broken window” appearance is gone.

Four seconds before shots: the window looks “normal”.

Less than a second after the last picture: There is a light oval shaped area in the window, on the left, toward the top. What’s going on? Did someone open the door in the room, allowing us to see the hallway?

One second to go: the window looks pretty normal.

When shots start, the photographer starts running, not surprisingly. So the next few seconds show scenes that are changing so rapidly one would have to look frame by frame to see if there is anything of use.

The next picture is taken within a second after shot 8.

The window is a LOT more reflective here than it was in previous pictures.

The window looks like it’s bowed out a little. In addition, in the first of these pictures there is a dark triangle in the bottom left of the window. There is a second shot I saved, but I decided to not include it since the differences may only be a result of the camera moving, or the compression algorithm. The second picture does not show the dark triangle.

The 9th shot - presumably the one that local snipers took of Crooks and missed - happens at 5:01.

Immediately afterward the window starts becoming less reflective.

At 5:04 the window goes to being not reflective, but has a mysterious bright flash:

Right after that the window looks pretty normal, except for the line across the middle that looks kind of like a stock price graph:

But wait, there’s another flash:

And then it’s back to normal.

Needless to say, I’m quite suspicious that there might have been a shooter in this window. Chris Martenson proposes that hypothesis in his first acoustic analysis video, from July 19. He put out a video analyzing this video yesterday, but it almost exclusively was focused on what the shots sounded like. I don’t care about that too much, because it’s pretty obvious from prior videos that shots 1-3 and 4-8 came from different rifles. The two series sound less different from each other in this video than in other videos, but they still sound different.

So, three big questions:

1)How could a shooter shoot through a window that appears to be closed the whole time?

2) Would someone in this position have a clear view to the stage?

3) If someone shot the first three shots from this window, would that be consistent with the first shot grazing Mr. Trump’s ear and then hitting the railing of the right hand bleachers? (We are pretty sure that bullet did go on to hit a person in the stands and the railing in the stands, although not necessarily in that order.)

For the first question, I think there might have been some kind presto-chango magic act going on. It’s pretty obvious the red curtain went up to obscure someone behind the window. The weird effects like the "drooping weatherstripping”, the “broken glass appearance” and the increased reflectivity and bowing of the window suggest to me that the actual glass in the window was replaced with some kind of plastic that would be reflective (so no one could look in) and would have some kind of self healing qualities. That doesn’t seem too far “out there” considering that this is exactly the kind of thing CIA researchers would create.

What then of the flashes of light a few seconds after shot 8 but before shot 10? Maybe it was a government employee killing the sniper - tying up a loose end. A good candidate for that second sniper would be Maxwell Yearick. The white van with explosives was registered to him. See George Webb’s substack or X posts for more on this georgewebb.substack.com. A word of caution though, some of his hypotheses are too far out there even for me, and he really likes to make cheesy and annoying AI illustrations.

Or maybe the light flashes were camera flashes. I wouldn’t think so, though, because camera strobes only last 1/60 of a second, so they should have shown up in more than one frame of a video.

Second question: would a shooter have a clear view of the stage? I was up until 4AM this morning (past my bedtime of 1:30) looking for videos and diagrams that would show this. I believe the answer is yes.

I took this screenshot from one of Chris Martenson’s videos. If you hold a straightedge from a spot about three feet behind the screen on the stage to that middle window in building six, you will see that the only thing in the way would be that hydraulic lift that’s holding the speaker bank. So the next question is - how tall is that thing?

Thanks to another of Mr. Stewart’s videos, I grabbed another still that shows it pretty well.

You can see people’s heads over all of that thing except for the part where operator would sit when moving it. It’s pretty close, but when I hold that straightedge up, it looks like the line of sight would be just forward of the part where the operator would be (which shows in black overhead photo). The line of site passes through the yellow part of that lift, so I think he would have a clear shot. Remember, Mr. Trump was on a stage that was about 4 feet high, and he is 6’ 3”, so the elevation would be almost 10 feet above the ground.

Third question - elevation. Google earth (which is not to be trusted, especially several days after an event like this, but it’s all I have) says:

Base of building 6 near the center building is 1340 feet, peak of roof is 1355 feet.

Ground level of stage is approximately 1342 feet.

The ground under the right bleachers is 1341 feet. These numbers are all approximate, and they come from a verified left leaning and CIA aligned source. (I mean google doesn’t do google maps, google streets and google earth out of their own resources, just to get a few more people using their search engines).

I used a distance of 432 feet from the window to the stage and 100 feet from the stage to the upper right corner of the bleachers. The calculations will not be altered significantly if these numbers are off a little.

So: one can see at 6:53 in the 9:27 long Stewart video a police officer checking the windows of building 6. The windows extend upwards a good 18” from the officer’s head. So we can use 1340 + 7 = 1347 as the height of the rifle.

Mr. Trump’s ear would have been about 1342 plus not quite 10 feet above the ground. So call it 1351.75 feet.

One critic of the “rising bullet” theory posted on X that the right hand side bleachers were 11’ 6” tall. The bullet hit the bleachers very close to the top of the railing. One wildcard is that the bullet may very well have hit David Dutch first and then fragmented or ricocheted into the railing. David Dutch was standing on the top row of those bleachers, second to the right. He was wearing a shirt with a large flag pattern, and can be seen walking down the bleachers under his own power afterwards. He is described as having been hit in the chest and liver, if I remember right.

Anyway, take 1341 plus 11 1/2 feet to get 1352.5 feet.

I did a little calculation to see how parabolic the bullet’s trajectory would have been. As far as I can tell, the bullet would have hit the stands maybe a couple inches below the straight line from the rifle to Mr. Trump’s ear.

So: using these numbers, the bullet rises about 4.75 feet (give or take a LOT, unfortunately) from the rifle to Mr. Trump’s ear with a horizontal distance of 432 feet.

We would expect the bullet to continue rising since a graze on skin is unlikely to affect the trajectory. It continues another 100 feet to the bleachers. One would expect about one more foot of rise if the bullet was fired from the top of that first story window. These numbers show a continued rise of 0.75 feet, which is pretty darn close.

The margin of error is really big, though. We need to get a surveyor out there to get exact heights.

Chris Martenson just put out another video in the last half hour. I need to go run an errand, then I’ll watch it.